Thursday, December 26, 2024
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Privacy

FTC Orders Avast To Pay $16.5M For Selling User’s Browsing Data

AV (antivirus) companies normally do not sell user's browsing data, as it goes against their commitment to user privacy and security.Their business model relies...

WhatsApp New Privacy Feature Let Users Hide Location During Calls

WhatsApp has begun to roll out the 'Protect IP Address in Calls' feature, which conceals your IP address during calls.Upon using this feature, all...

Minor Typo Results in the Leak of Millions Sensitive of US Military Emails

Thousands of US military emails were allegedly leaked to Mali, a country in western Africa, due to an unintentional typo error that occurred over...

ChatGPT Creator Sued for $3 Billion Over Theft of Private Data

In a class action complaint filed on Wednesday, it is claimed that OpenAI and Microsoft stole "vast amounts of private information" from internet users...

Brave New Privacy Feature to Limit Website Access to Local Resources

Brave version of 1.54 for desktop and Android will include more powerful features for controlling which sites can access local network resources and for...

Amazon Ring Employees Able to Access Every Single Camera Customer Video

California-based Ring LLC endangered its customers’ privacy by allowing any employee or contractor to see consumers’ private footage and failing to implement basic privacy...

WhatsApp Can’t be Trusted, Warns Elon Musk

After a Twitter engineer posted photos of an Android dashboard showing his WhatsApp microphone being used while he slept, Elon Musk declared that WhatsApp could...

Tesla Employees Shared Sensitive Images of Cameras on Customers‘ Cars

Reuters reported that between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees secretly shared via internal messaging system occasionally highly intrusive recordings and photographs captured...